Pompeii Reading Comprehension
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English
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3rd Grade
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Hard
Staff - Al Hamra Lyn Fenby
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the correct name for the people who had to dig to uncover the streets of Pompeii?
Street sweepers
Garbage Collectors
Archeologists
Historians
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Name the mountain beside Pompeii?
Vesuvius
Etna
Jebel Jais
Krakatoa
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The disaster provides a clear model of life in ....
Viking Times
The Stone Age
The Roman Empire
The Industrial Revolution
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Empty shells remain after ....
The streets were uncovered
The bodies decayed
The archeologists left
The volcano erupted.
5.
REORDER QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Look at paragraph 2 in Pompeiil. Reorder the statements to show the chronological order that they occur in the text.
In August of the year 79CE, there had been some earth tremors in Pompeii, but the people weren't worried.
Then, at around midday, a huge cloud of burning hot gas and rocks filled the sky.
The morning of 24 August was just like any other.
Many people ran for the coast
.Some went to fetch their belongings.
6.
REORDER QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Look at the sentences below. Reorder them to show the order the words occur in the sentence.
sky
midday
burning hot
rocks
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Mount Vesuvius erupted on which date?
24th August
24th March
24th April
24th September
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